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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: moby_dick who wrote (79808)	11/17/2000 2:20:29 PM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769667

I pegged you right jesse jackson. Maybe you need an IRS audit like the Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH.knc

To: moby_dick who wrote (79808)	11/17/2000 2:23:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Phone calls sufficed, so I am back. My maternal grandmother was English, but her part of the family immigrated after the Civil War. Not only that, but her father was an English Catholic! (Her mother was a WASP). I am the first person in a direct line in my family to have a college degree. My father, although relatively affluent now, started out on the line in a lithography business, and made his way as a salesman, owning and losing a business, being in charge of sales at other shops. My wife and I are just barely "upper middle". My wife could join the DAR, although she is also of Scottish and German descent. Her father sold office furniture in Kansas City. His father was the district supervisor of the American Sunday School Union. The other grandfather lost his farm and became a serviceman for vending machines. I worked in a local McGovern campaign office when I was in high school, manning tables at shopping centers, making phone calls, going door to door. By the time I had graduated college, though, I was drifting in the direction later called "neonconservative", and ended up voting for Ronald Reagan. There were many aspects to the transition, but I suppose one could, in part, blame Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brehsnev, one for his fecklessness, the other for his adventurism. As time went on, I became more conventionally conservative.......